Jan Garncarek
THE BRAND
Jan Garncarek established studio in 2017 after working for Towarzystwo Projektowe, Warsaw-based industial design studio. His portfolio includes lamps, tables, chairs and decorative objects.
Jan Garncarek
Marble top set in a steel and brass frame. The gently sloping legs add a dynamic and modern touch. The brass structure underneath the marble top stiffens the system and adds elegance to the desk.
Jan Garncarek
This is a minimalist piece of furniture with great strength. The designer's premise was to create a piece of furniture that could even support an adult climbing on it. Every smallest element comes from the pure function of the furniture. The bookcase is maximally slimmed down and devoid of unnecessary details.
Jan Garncarek
Heavy vertical form. The lamp is the result of the designer's battlefield fascination from childhood. The designer came from a family with a military tradition. Bullet shells were the first material Jan Garncarek processed while learning metallurgy basics. The designer refers to the shape of the shell. However, he does not identify it with the cruelty of war. The object captures the fascination of the body and material, entirely out of the context of war, just as only an unaware child can perceive reality and its beauty without prejudice.
Jan Garncarek
This unique vase was designed during the designer's travels around the Canary Islands. A trip to the Coffee Beach on Fuerteventura Island inspired mystical and minimalist forms. It is an extraordinary place that seamlessly blends the boundlessness of the ocean with high mountains, in the middle of which sits Wintter's dilapidated villa. Many myths about this building and its former function are kept a secret. The remains of the former airport on the beach, the nearby cemetery, and the obliterated roads powerfully stimulate the imagination. The designer imagined what the sand could still conceal. He sketched this image based on which he made the vase.
Jan Garncarek
The table consists of a marble or wooden top with a metal collar. This will enable the separation of everyday objects from those we want to expose on the slightly elevated part. The table top lies on a steel frame. The tables are made to size. The color and type of wood stone can be chosen according to customer preferences.
Jan Garncarek
The Emiter hanging lamp is made from brass elements and a transparent glass shade. The height of the tube can be adjusted - custom-made for particular order. The lamp has a decorative bulb that provides warm light.
Jan Garncarek
Spun metal sheet, rounded and swollen forms. The light emanates from within the sphere and reflects on the plate. It was giving off a fiery glow. These are perfect shapes that bring out the beauty of the brass—captured in an elegant minimalist form—the condition results from a long process of searching for the ideal proportions. The lamp gives a soft decorative light.
Jan Garncarek
The screen is an oil-painted piece of art created in collaboration with an artist - Ewelina Makosa. Each screen is the artist's capture of a unique mood. A mood that strongly influences the interior space. Unlike a wall painting, a screen interferes with the room's geometry, which has an even more substantial effect on the user. The screens are hand-painted to order. The colors are carefully selected to achieve the desired atmosphere.
Jan Garncarek
The first of the lamps was designed by Jan Garbarek. It refers to white weapons. Weapons were always present in the designer's family home. The designer was inspired by a story from his childhood when he stayed at his grandfather's house. Late one evening, the phone rang at home. It turned out that a burglar alarm had gone off at the neighbor's house, which automatically made such calls. Jan Garncarek's grandfather then took out a flute (a sword) and went to deal with the burglar. However, he escaped. The lamp is supposed to relate to a spear with which one could defend oneself in case of need. The elongated part of the lamp is not so easily removable, serving more as a symbol.
Jan Garncarek
Spun metal sheet, rounded and swollen forms. The light emanates from within the sphere and reflects on the plate. It was giving off a fiery glow. These are perfect shapes that bring out the beauty of the brass—captured in an elegant minimalist form—the condition results from a long process of searching for the ideal proportions. The lamp gives a soft decorative light.
Jan Garncarek
A lamp was created as a result of a fascination with the possibilities offered by metallurgy. The light exposes what is most beautiful in brass. Here I see beauty in two different forms. The first are various types of dishes or shields. Their phenomenon is the occurrence of irresolvable conditions. The flat sheet is flaccid and prone to deformation. Only after its extrusion and giving its sphericity it gains its constitutionality. The second form is the heavy machine parts, simple and perfectly matched "geometries." Metropolis is a clash of both of these fascinations. The lamp is made by hand with entire brass, using traditional methods of metalworking and other ways, slowly fading into obscurity. An example of which are the plates executed by the metal spinning method.
Jan Garncarek
Combination of brass and oxidized steel. The lamp can be mounted in unusual places, such as a column. Its movable parts allow the direction of light to be modeled. Its form results only from its function and is the most technical of Jan Garncarek's designs. An unusual solution is separating the lamp mounting element from the rosette from which the lamp draws its current.
Jan Garncarek
The concrete table legs are architectural elements from the designer's family home, which were dismantled during the renovation of the historic building. The designer approaches the original pre-war fabric of the places he grew up in with great sentiment. Often giving it a new function and meaning. In this way, the old world does not pass away, but in fact acquires greater significance.
Jan Garncarek
(from the Italian 'dragonfly') is a fin-shaped sconce that emerges from the wall. The sphere-shaped glass shade intersects a brass sheet and illuminates the space evenly. The slender form topped with an oval was inspired by observations of insects, to be precise, by a dragonfly. Hence the name. The lamp was produced in techniques of brass casting and glass blowing.
Jan Garncarek
What determines how we perceive beauty comes from the play of associations and references to our past experiences. The designer's aim was to capture one such association by giving it a simplified and minimalist form. The object seems to be bloated and gently descends. It is finished with a luminous protuberance, giving off a warm light.
Jan Garncarek
The concrete table legs are architectural elements from the designer's family home, which were dismantled during the renovation of the historic building. The designer approaches the original pre-war fabric of the places he grew up in with great sentiment. Often giving it a new function and meaning. In this way, the old world does not pass away, but in fact acquires greater significance.
